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This directory contains:

README		- this file
emulateapj.sty
apjfonts.sty


`emulateapj' is a LaTeX (209 or 2e) style to approximate the Astrophysical
Journal (ApJ) page look.  The page length of the document is close to that
in ApJ if postscript Times fonts are used instead of the standard CM fonts
(see below). `emulateapj' requires the `multicol' package available from
CTAN archives.

The file emulateapj.sty is a modification of the AAS (American Astronomical
Society) preprint style aaspp4.sty, including pieces of the plain TeX
apjformat* by someone BLW. If a manuscript is prepared using the standard
AAS macros used for electronic manuscript submission, the only thing
required from the user is to replace the style `aaspp4' with `emulateapj' in
the first line of the document. We tried not to touch any of the nonobvious
aaspp4 functionality to save trouble for users, so large parts of the code
are probably useless, of which we did not care.

Because `multicol' package cannot deal with floats of the width of the
single column, footnotes, figures, tables etc. can only be set across two
columns (that is, use `figure*' environment instead of `figure'.)
Alternatively, insert figures as non-floats in the exact place of the text
by hand.

There is a command \submitted{your text} to replace the default text in the
upper left corner of the front page ("Draft version \today") with `your
text'. Use it before the title commands.

There is a package option `onecolumn' (available only in LaTeX2e),
\usepackage[onecolumn]{emulateapj}, which sets the whole paper in one column
mode as is done by the ApJ for papers with lengthy equations. Even if the
document is `onecolumn', `thebibliography' or `references' are typeset in
two columns.

For users of `deluxetable': in LaTeX2e, the table font size is not reduced
by putting fontsize commands inside \begin{deluxetable} and
\end{deluxtable}. To reduce the font size, \tablefontsize command is
defined. To use, put e.g., \tablefontsize{\footnotesize} after 
\begin{deluxetable}.


The latest version of emulateapj.sty is also available from
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~alexey/emulateapj/
To use Times postscript fonts, also use the accompanying file apjfonts.sty 
(at the site above, there is also a package of font files if necessary).


Maxim Markevitch <maxim@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, 
Alexey Vikhlinin <alexey@head-cfa.harvard.edu>